Hey, all! Before I start gabbing, here's where we're at:

So Necro got his new PC and got it all hooked up, and he's saying everything is massively improved. No longer does he have to wait 2 minutes for a single character to load or 20 minutes for the studio program itself to load. A character takes 10 seconds and the studio is down to a couple of minutes. He also has 4k graphics now, and did some test renders in 4k with full upscale and... good god.

I've also done a bit of an experiment. For a long time, I've had this idea of "Butter-Smooth Slowmo" that involves shooting video clips at high framerates, slowing them down, and then using AI frame interpolation to insert the missing frames so there's no jerky stutter. And the result is... fantastic. I wanted to post some of them here, but it doesn't seem like I can. We've been asked to create a Pinup Pack with our tests and it's on the way.

But that's not what you're here for! You want the update. That's right, there are 2 SCENES LEFT and then we can work on full release testing! We have to make sure all the new scenes work from a fresh game AND from a game that's saved at the last checkpoint. But yes, 2 scenes left, and one of them is an H-scene. That's 3 total H-scenes in one patch, which we've never done. And one of these has I think 32 video loops. We do not fuck around on H-scenes lol. And the H-scenes I've done for this patch are the best I've ever done.

Once we've got everything all tested and confirmed to work, the release cycle will start with our T5 and T4 Supporters as usual. We'll use this time to fix initial bugs and make sure things are working. Then it'll be on to the rest of Supporters, and finally, the Public as usual.

Sidenote, we've got some designs going for Goblin Roommates finally, which will be a separate project. This will be a far shorter project with only 5 love interests. Goblin Roommates will have a much higher focus on H-scenes than WCA, and it's not gonna be a free-to-the-public project. We really want to have a completed project out there that takes advantage of all the stuff we've learned during the making of WCA. Better lighting, fixed necks, fixed jiggle issue, all of it. But that won't take time away from WCA; I'm only working on that in my free time where I can't do anything for WCA. So there will be zero impact to this project at all. 

Anyways, after WCA 1.3.5.0 and its inevitable bugfixes are released and finalized, it's onto 1.4.0.0 with Season 2 Episode 4 and 1.4.5.0 with another batch of 4 girls and getting them up to 5 scenes apiece. So far, this approach seems to be working wonderfully well. The main goal now is picking up the speed of the updates without compromising on quality. The new poser seems to be doing quite well, and I have him working on the Senia DLC as a sort of trial run. He's currently doing Senia's 4th scene, and when she hits 8 completed scenes, she'll be released for early access to T5 and T4 folks to test out and give feedback.

That's it for now! We're gonna try to power through these last two scenes and get this patch out to you! This is the home stretch!

See you on the other side!

- Vic